Former MIT prof who staged shooting now accused of forgery : Fenix Investors

John J. Donovan Sr., a 75-year-old who built a fortune in technology, was indicted by a grand jury in Salem on Thursday on seven counts of forgery, along with other charges including attempted larceny, witness intimidation and obtaining a signature by false pretenses.
The senior Donovan is accused of forging his son’s signature to gain title to the property deeds, and of forging a variety of other documents related to his son’s final will.
He was found guilty in 2007 of staging his own shooting outside his business office in Cambridge. He said he was attacked by two Russian hit-men while getting into his car on the night of Dec. 16, 2005. He said his son James hired the men and denied any role in the shooting.
His son James is a Goldman Sachs executive who was nominated for the No. 2 job in Republican President Donald Trump’s Treasury Department earlier this year but later withdrew from the process, citing personal reasons.